ambien for nap

After that I just toss and turn in the bed all night. Then I end up having to take a 2-3 hour nap during the day. But even when I skip the nap, I still don't sleep well. I thought it was just because I worked 3rd shift for years but I don't know. I don't have any helpful suggestions though. Sorry.

Hi, I was on Lunesta for the entire tx and it worked great. Ambien comes in two forms one is extended ambien, do you know which one you are on? You should talk to your Dr about which one you are on.I took regular ambien long before tx and it didn't work too well for me either. Best of luck....

I was put on ambien for sleep and klonopin for anxiety. I want to take a nap but can't took my benzo and still can't. Took two and still can't... I dont want to trade drugs. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.. feel low and alone. sux 9 days no opiots.. Whats goin on?

You will have a "rebound insominia effect" from the Ambien for a couple nights. It's VERY addictive....did you wean down before you quit taking it? Also, if you're only 10 or 11 days off Tramadol, that adds to it. In early withdrawal a lot of people find nothing works for sleep for awhile. ALL your neurotransmitters are re-setting and re-regulating. They are doing that from the Tramadol as well as the Ambien.

But I look forward to more clean time, waiting for my sleep clock to reset. Do you nap during the day? I try not to. I fight it. I wonder if that's good or not. Write me back Tootie and talk to me ok? Kat...

ve taken the Ativan for the nap. I think Ativan can work for up to 6hrs, then your ready for bed, take Ambian and by the time you wake up in the morning your body is ready for another Ativan, but you don't take it so you suffer from rebound anxiety. What do you think?

INSONMIA !! it is a bear!! It does cycle... I'm in my 20th week and last week I had it BAD!! The ***** about it is if you have to work a full time job!! NO SLEEP AND WORK make for a bitter person.... Ambien doesn't help this hepper!! nothing did when the insomnia hit!! I just wanted to go to the emergency room by the end of the week and take the anesthiologist hostage and have him KNOCK ME OUT!! but I didn't...and after 7 days of insomnia I finally slept!!

I had this done in 2010 due to poor sleep and extreme sleepiness during the day. Always, always tired, but cannot nap- to keep it short. After this, I was given ambien cr at night and nuvigil during the day. I am wanting to better understand my results. Sleep efficiency after onset: 93.6% Waking after sleep onset: .5 min Sleep onset latency: 11 min First REM latency: 77.5 min #of REM Periods: 5 Stage 1: 24.5 min / 5.4% TST Stage 2: 252 min / 55.

I have been on Ambien for years and can not sleep........I take it like at 10pm and awake around 1am...Have been having migranes for two months everyday and night. Is this due to the Ambien and being on it for so long, that now I can't get any sleep whatso ever. I will not nap during the day in hopes that I get a good nights sleep but that doesn't work either...any suggestions.........Please I need to sleep even if it's just 6hrs...I would love to beable to sleep..

Hi KatEyes, I do agree with your thought and thanks for your post. As you were used to Ambien for sleep since many months or more, now you are finding it difficult to get sleep without it and I appreciated your determination to try sleep without it. Yes, human body has tremendous capacity to get back to normalcy and you can sleep on own but it is better to get examined and undergo the sleep study and its assessment to chalk out a proper care for you.

Well I didn't take the ambien last night. Put some oil (RLS) on my legs that made me hot didn't work that well. Got up at 11:30 and had to wash it off. I dozed on and off all night. Finely got some good sleep in the early a.m. I've taken a nap, 15mins, since I've been up. I feel so depressed, hot and cold. I've forgotten how long it took me to get past the wd's of ambien. I don't think it took long. I really can't think.

If you just use them for a week or so you should be fine. I have a prescription for ambien and only take them here and there. I have never had problem with them. I have gone a few weeks at a time without them. They will not drag out your withdrawals or make them worse. That being said, just take them as needed and for a short period of time. Exercise works wonders to help with the sleep. Try and wear yourself out during the day. It will also help speed the whole process up.

Hope you find some ambien and sleep good tonight. Exercise is hard for me too mostly because I have NO energy or motivation.

I am going to say what works for me, but this may not work for you. I take my ambien sublingually and it hits me like a freight train. 10mg is ok. I sometimes take 12-15 as I have been on it for three years.

Tonight day 2 no sleep. Took .5 mg ativan. Dozed off for an hour wide awake but very tired. Just took 5 mg ambien tired but no sleep. Help. will call psychiatrist in morning. Thought I would post again. Up at 4:30 for work at 6 am. Taking my zoloft before going to work has helped during day but by mid afternoon the shakes of being tired set in go to lunch in car to try taking nap, a no go. I am only on 12.5 Zoloft. How long insomnia last.

I have been taking a much higher dosage of 10mg Ambien every day for months now and want to taper off. I cannot afford treatment, but waould like to know if there are doctors that can get mre on a tapering schedule so that it can be done medically safe.

I have had thyroid checked, one time they say it is overactive then normal then underactive. Ambien worked for a bit if I doubled up then it stopped. I have went so far as to take 2 clonazapam, 2 ambien and 2 muscle relaxers just to get 3-4 hours of sleep. What else could I do? I work 13 hours per day six days a week.....I am exhausted and desperate!!

I am going away for two days tomorrow and I have a friend who had ambien and she gave me one. Yeah, yeah, I know this is not something I should do, but I did. This is what happens sometimes when your Dr. refuses to help you. And actually I had 12 ambien that was prescribed last year in July , I just used the last one when I was gone overnight last month. I do not take them unless it is necessary.

Definitely call your doctor that could allergic reaction to one or more of your meds. Are any of them new to you?

I was having horrible pains since last night. Anywho, my doc prescribed me Ambien to take in order for me rest. Anybody taken this before?? During pregnancy?? Reading up on it makes me nervous.

ambien is the worst drug for an addict. Like most of us opiod addicts we are used to taking more than the normal dose. I had ambien during recovery and I would take one and decide its not working and then take another then another. I would have the worst blackouts. One night I had taken the whole bottle and woke up in the er not remembering anything. I was commited for 24 hour psyc hold. I got into more trouble on ambien than any other drug.

2-3 hrs of sleep combined in a night if I am lucky. The only thing that works for me is 20mg of Ambien, but I can only take it every 7th day, other than that it will not work.... I will let you know how the CBT goes. I go today...

They passed out mints for the wierd taste you get from the steroids, tastes metallic. I tolerated it well, I already take Ambien for sleep so did not have too much touble with insomnia.Drink a lot of water, get a nap in if you can and give yourself a break if you are a bit more irritable. I was careful what I ate as well since it makes you hungry and did not gain weight. The energy I felt was nice side effect too. I hope it goes well for you, and good luck.

going to try and nap now - the baby is down for his nap. we'll see - i have yet to be able to nap, so if nothing else it will be a rest.

Tooter you can have more than one tracker honey one for the pain med and you can make one for the ambien. I have one and it is for pain meds. I would think those are completely different drugs so you could start the ambien tracker for the last time you took the ambien and keep your pain med tracker going? Sometimes it takes a little longer to come off of one. Alot of others have more than one tracker. That is great that you didn't have to take the ambien last night!

I'm going through the same thing. Lat three days I've been functioning on 3-4 hours and its been reaaly hard as I have 3 children to look after. I tried melatonin last night for the frist time this week with no result- argh. I've been contemplating ambien as well, but know its not the long term solution for me. I'm trying to turn it into a positive by thinking of all the things I can get accomplished while everyone else in my household is still asleep.

I take zopiclone 10 mg for sleeping every night, which is 1/7 the recommended dose if you are using it for depression, which is its primary use. The doxep site said no one knows why it works, but it has done the trick for 10 years for me. It is easy for me to quit it, which I have done numerous times for periods up to 2 months, however it isn't worth it for me because I only get normal sleep 5 days out of 7 when off it, even after 2 months abstinence.

I was taking 4 mg of ativan (way too high), as well as 10 mg ambien for insomnia. I managed to taper off the ativan using valium when I got to the smaller doses of ativan. Now I am done with the valium (as of August 1) but am still having rebound insomnia and jittery feelings. I still take 10 mg of ambien at night to sleep, but it isn't really working. I've gone many nights now with minimal sleep and do function during the day.

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